While talking with the Lord, my mind was taken to these two words: Holy Intervention. As I asked the Lord what exactly He was trying to reveal to me, I thought about how interventions have become such a needed tool in our society because a multitude of people have been overtaken by the different addictions to the point, we have a reality show about it. When most people hear the word intervention they think of drug addicts because drug addiction seems to be at an all time high. But drug addiction isn’t the sole reason we have interventions in our society. You can have an intervention for any “bad” habit or habitual behavior a person chooses to engage in, unfortunately many are overlooked. People forget there are shopping addictions, working addictions, sexual addictions, behavioral addictions, societal addictions , etc. which all ruin people’s lives, destroy marriages, break up families, cause depression and anxiety, creates low self esteem and the list goes on. But does anyone try to intervene in their loved ones life who is a shop-a-holic? Who is a work-a-holic? Who is an alcoholic? Who is a gambling-a-holic? We are readily willing to help any of these addictions, while at the same time, there are many who are not willing to offer actual help, instead they are willing to be their enabler. An enabler is someone who has their own addiction to “helping” their loved one stay in their addiction so they’ll feel needed, wanted, loved and helpful. An enabler has the same type of blinders on just as someone who is an addict. They allow themselves to be blinded from the truth because when they accept reality then they must deal with it. They must accept the fact that their loved one has a problem and they feel like they’ve let them down or didn’t do a good job of being a good influence in their life.

Out of all of the addictions in life have you every considered a sin-a-holic? Now you’re thinking, What? A sin-a-holic? How is that an addiction that would need an intervention? I would ask, how do you not see that sin is an addiction. Why are we not seeking a holy intervention for our loved ones who are in the chains of sin, who are bound up by the bondage of their sinful choices? How can we not see that as they seek after those “bad habits”, “wrong choices”, sinful behaviors that they are destroying their lives, ruining their marriages, bringing on depression, anxiety and unhappiness into their lives. Nothing honestly satisfies their soul, that longing to be truly loved, to know what actual happiness is and to have the thirsting of their soul completely satisfied. Why do we sit back and watch it all happen? (Refuse to witness to them.) Why do we enable anyone to stay in a sinful life? Why do we not have an intervention for them? (Invite them to church, tell them about the love of God?) Would we not do everything we can for a loved one who is addicted to drugs including an intervention if that’s what it takes to get them the help they need? We don’t want to watch as they throw away their life. As a mother of a child who chose drugs over everything else in his life, I can tell you with honesty every choice we made was through prayer and to help him, never to enable him to stay in that life. Not saying we made every right decision, but it was our goal to encourage his life. I could not watch him completely throw his life and soul away like it was no big deal, like tomorrow was promised, like life just goes on without consequences. I can remember sleepless nights of praying all night, begging God to please bless him with one more day of life so he had the choice to not choose drugs, crying for our son who was killing himself, drenching my pillow with tears for my love one who all I wanted was to save his life. Save his life! Please God save his life!! I realized and knew saving his life wasn’t just from the drugs and alcohol that he was addicted too. It was also from the sinful life he was living, but was he really living? So I had to ask myself will I continue to enable him or will I do everything I possibly can to save his life. Save his life – not just from drugs and alcohol but from sin as well. So now ask yourself, would you really rather be the enabler in their lives and watch as they ruin their lives, as they refuse the love and forgiveness of God, as they choose to put everything they have into sin and make hell their eternal home? Should you not be that person up all night begging God to spare their life one more day, give them one more opportunity for salvation, please save their life, save their life, save their life!!!! Note to self: God will not force anyone to accept salvation no more than you can force someone to accept the help of an intervention.

Don’t be a sin enabler! Share God with a lost and dying world. When Christians witness to people about the love of God, they are actually trying to intervene in that person’s life. They are trying to help them seek a better life. They are trying to open their eyes to the fact they are making choices on a path that leads to hell itself. We should be sharing the love of God to all people no matter who they are. But also when we have the opportunity to witness to our loved ones and we allow that opportunity to pass us by, we are being their sin enablers. When we are helping them engage in sin, we are being their sin enablers. When we encourage sin by allowing it in our homes, around our children, going to places with them that is not meant for a Christian to be at, we are sin enablers. We are feeding our own selfishness by allowing the thoughts of well they don’t want to hear this, or I don’t feel like talking to them today maybe next time or I have better things to be doing. We are confusing the line between Christianity and worldliness. We are sending mixed signals as to what we believe ourselves, not only to the person we are supposed to be witnessing truth too but also to others who see our actions or hear our words but then there’s God who sees those mixed signals. What are we telling Him? Are we really so arrogant to think we should mix our beliefs just so we don’t have to take the time to talk to them or actually care about another person’s soul? Which are we more concerned about their feelings or their souls? Would we be willing to do an intervention if they were a drug addict, an alcoholic, or gambler who’s wasting their money away? If you can say yes, then why would you not be ready to do a holy intervention? Witness the love of God to all sinners? Intervene in their lives?

Lord God, forgive us Christians who won’t take the time to share Your precious love and intervene in another person’s life. Please help us to be a part of a holy intervention to a lost and dying world. Please give every lost soul another opportunity to know salvation through Your Son Jesus Christ. Please forgive me for where I have failed you and for where I have failed those who I am suppose to be witnessing too. Give me the correct words to speak as I witness and show me the way to intervene in a sinner’s life. I also want to say Thank You for those You sent into my life to intervene and reveal the way to Calvary, the way to You. Thank You for the intervention in Matt’s life, I am grateful he knows You as his personal Savior.